Via the medium of screenshot, EA Sports have confirmed that Mario Balotelli’s now-iconic ‘flex’ goal celebration has been included in FIFA 13 – though all you sticklers for detail out there will have to make do with him ‘hulking up’ with his shirt on as opposed to the nipples-on-show topless original against Germany at Euro 2012.

Anyway, rather than get Balotelli himself in to provide the motion capture (he was busy elsewhere, strapping a jetpack to a shire horse) for the celebration, EA turned to an altogether more unlikely source, with former Watford and current Vancouver Whitecaps’ centre-half Jay DeMerit – a man who has pretty much never scored a goal in his entire life – donning the bobbly black onesie and doing his finest Mario impression..